>I made a comment about not dying uselessly, which Sandy said may be
>an attitude that Humakti do not share. Perhaps just getting away is
>the wrong thing to do, but as I pointed out, there are positive
>things that this character could accomplish by doing so.
Yes, this is true, but it would probably depend upon what the character really meant by his fleeing, and his actions thereafter, etc. For instance, if he said, "You will be avenged, my comrades! I go to summon our brothers to this den of evil and by Humakt I shall not eat until these horrors are destroyed." And then he in fact refused all nourishment until the monsters were killed. I think in a case like that, he'd probably get off scott-free. Or if he made up some other typically Humakti oath that impressed me as gamemaster. But just bugging out I'd throw the book at him.
>I would have thought that it was not possible for people to join any
>other cult once they joined Humakt.
I can see this.
Nils, on Kralori Imperial Succession
>As for poisoning I think the subordinates often poison each other,
>but not the emperor himself. That would be to kill the empire.
Why should Kralori be any less short-sighted than anyone else?
Nils:
>All in all you have made me doubt. I'm still not convinced that
>there were any more emperors than Yanoor and Godunya after the dawn,
>but I'm wavering.
You didn't like my Shang Hsa description? The First Age Emperor whose Third Eye was opened at the Sunstop?
>Sandy on Kralorelan diet:
>TYPICAL KRALORI FARMER
> Staple: rice
> Other: that's it, really. Just rice.
Nils, aghast
>>No vegetables?
Not in quantity sufficient to make a meal in themselves. Really, for the central Kralori, food IS rice. All other foodstuffs are really just forms of condiments. In other words. rice is at every meal, and comprises the bulk of the meal. Along with your rice you might have pickled cabbage, barbecue pork, dried fish, etc. If you have dry food with your rice, it adds an interesting texture to the rice. If you have moist food with your rice, it adds an interesting flavor to your food. But the Kralori would definitely think of all such things as an _addition_ to the rice.
Of course, Kralori in areas that do not cultivate rice so heavily would not think in this manner.
Paul R.
>We moderns often project a false image of pure monotheism back into
>history before it was developed.
We also impose a false "evolutionary" sequence onto concepts that we figure we _must_ have the most highly sophisticated versions of. While the ancient Hebrews may not have been as monotheistic as the modern ones, let's not forget that the original impetus towards thining of them as henotheists was a scholarly urge to see "progression" on the part of early religious thought.
End of Glorantha Digest V1 #158
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